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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.
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All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.
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You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
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I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.
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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
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Cyberspace is everting. It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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